Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Hegemony of English and Determinants of Borrowing from Its Vocabulary -- 2. Icelandic: Phonosemantic Matching -- 3. French: Tradition versus Innovation as Reflected in English Borrowings -- 4. Dutch: Is It Threatened by English? -- 5. Hungarian: Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing in a Market Economy Newcomer -- 6. Russian: From Socialist Realism to Reality Show -- 7. Hebrew: Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects in a Modern(ised) Language -- 8. Colloquial Arabic (in Israel): The Case of English Loan Words in a Minority Language with Diglossia -- 9. Amharic: Political and Social Effects on English Loan Words -- 10. Farsi: The Modernisation Process and the Advent of English -- 11. Indian Languages: Hidden English in Texts and Society -- 12. Chinese in Taiwan: Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey and Embracing English -- 13. Japanese: The Dialectic Relationships Between 'Westerness' and 'Japaneseness' as Reflected in English Loan Words -- 14. Conclusion: Features of Borrowing from English in 12 Languages -- Bibliography -- Index